Grasso — cousin of busty Angela (Big Ang) Raiola, star of the VH1 series about mob family life in Staten Island — took the stand at his 2011 weapons possession case, nonchalantly telling jurors he was innocently meeting a business associate when he was cuffed and collared.

"All of a sudden, miraculously, a gun popped up — I was in shock!" said the federal convict, who is serving a 38-year sentence for participating in a robbery with Hector (Junior) Pagan, the ex-husband of Renee Graziano, another star on the show.

Prosecutors say he also had zip ties, ammo and other suspicious items when the NYPD's Organized Crime Unit arrested him on Second Ave. four years ago.

He insisted — in lively testimony — that his personality accounts for the incriminating recorded calls in which he discussed apparent threats against a foe and mentioned being "loaded up." He said that really meant that he was doped up on medication.

"This is New York. New York has a certain kind of character. People talk a certain kind of way," he explained.

"I'm an Italian-American. I guess I talk with a certain kind of accent, I'm told," he went on.

Grasso is the cousin of Angela (Big Ang) Raiola, pictured, star of the VH1 series about mob family life on Staten Island. (Jesse Ward/for New York Daily News)

At times the 48-year-old's story meandered off course and he sounded more like a Martin Scorsese character at a bar than a witness at a criminal proceeding.

"What do you want to know?" he repeatedly asked his lawyer, Alex Grosshtern, who was trying to get his client on track.